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urchin
noun
A mischievous child.
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/ˈɜːtʃən/ /ˈɝtʃən/
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noun
A mischievous child.
A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
A sea urchin.
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
A hedgehog.
A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.